The Genetic Lottery: DNA demystified with Kathryn Paige Harden
The subject of genetic inheritance provokes passionate debate but behavioural geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden believes both sides are getting it wrong. It’s possible, she argues, to reclaim the scienc...
7 Dec 202157min
Business Weekly: Scaling up success
Andrew Chen is a specialist in growing tech businesses and for his new book, The Cold Start Problem, he has spoken to the founders of companies such as LinkedIn, Zoom, Uber, Dropbox, Tinder and Airbnb...
6 Dec 202143min
The Sunday Debate: Assisted Dying Should Be Legalised
Autonomy, dignity and compassion. We wish to experience these things in our lives, so why shouldn’t we experience them in our deaths? That’s the argument made by those who support a change in the law ...
5 Dec 20211h
Wole Soyinka on writing, politics and the power of a novel
It’s been almost 50 years since Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, Africa’s first Nobel laureate for literature, last published a novel. Chronicles From the Land of the Happiest People on Earth is, his fel...
3 Dec 202158min
Nationalism and the Battle for India’s Soul, with Shashi Tharoor
Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his BJP party came to power in 2014, India has seen an increase in Hindu nationalism and a rise in hostility towards the Muslim minority population. Politician a...
30 Nov 202158min
Business Weekly: The Race for a Vaccine
Kate Bingham is the former Chair of the UK Vaccine Taskforce and she's also a shrewd business mind, having been a successful venture capitalist in sectors such as biotech for the past 30 years. She re...
29 Nov 202138min
COP26: Success or Failure for the World?
What now for the world? Governments have reached a climate deal which gets us closer to holding temperatures rises to 1.5C. But a last-ditch effort from India and China to water down pledges to phase ...
28 Nov 20211h
Huma Abedin on Hillary Clinton, Anthony Weiner and a Life in Politics
Huma Abedin was Hillary Clinton’s most trusted aide and adviser for many years. Her recently published book, Both/And, reveals the details of that relationship as well as reflecting on the very public...
26 Nov 202156min
